Victims in Temerson Square shooting identified

Wednesday

Jul 18, 2012 at 4:53 PM

Warrants have been filed in Tuscaloosa County District Court in the cases against a man accused in an early morning shooting spree on Tuesday. Nathan Wilkins, 44, is accused of shooting 17 people at The Copper Top in downtown Tuscaloosa and another man less than an hour before at a house in Northport.

By Stephanie TaylorStaff Writer

Warrants have been filed in Tuscaloosa County District Court in the cases against a man accused in an early morning shooting spree on Tuesday.Nathan Wilkins, 44, is accused of shooting 17 people at The Copper Top in downtown Tuscaloosa and another man less than an hour before at a house in Northport.The papers filed Wednesday afternoon list the 17 people who were shot at The Copper Top as Andreas Hielscher, Walter Edward Rogers, Christopher Bryant Johnson, Renardo Jackson, Alonzo John Ruffin, Jeremy Cordell Davis, Willis Junior Howard, Tebiarus Levert Gill, Andrew Herbert Stone, Rachel Amberly Studdard, Jonathan Riley Dunn, Cody Clay Patterson, Brian William Hundley, Kelvin Tramon Sigler, Jason Bradley Atencio, Kaitlyn Knapp Lamb, Jillian Nicole Garcia and Mario Winkler.Jackson and Winkler remain hospitalized at DCH. Jackson is in fair and Winkler is in serious condition.A deposition sheet written by a Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide Unit investigator detailed the shooting that happened less than an hour before the shooting at Copper Top.According to the document, resident Bruce Richardson Bankhead, 30, said that someone knocked on his door and said “delivery.” A man who investigators say was Wilkins pointed a gun at Bankhead and began to fire as he turned to run. Bankhead was shot in the back. Wilkins continued to fire into the house.Investigators began receiving tips Tuesday morning that identified the shooter as Wilkins. They traveled to his house on Buckhead Drive in Northport and found the doors open and no one home. They went inside and found open containers of Wolf brand ammunition, the same that was used in the Northport and Copper Top shootings.